Machine for magazining nuts



July 2, 1929. w, GlBNEY 1,719,221

' MACHINE FOR MAGAZINING NUTS Filed Nov, 25, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 July 2, 1929. J. w. GIBNEY MACHINE FOR MAGAZINING NUTS Patented July 2, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH w. GIBNEY, or ronrortns'rnn, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR r RUSSELL BUnnsALL & WARD BOLT & NUT COMPANY, 01? PORT CHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF N EW YORK.

MACHINE ron MAGAZINING- NUTS.

Applicationfiled November 25, 1927. Serial No.235,461.

operations, may be correctly performed on them.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple machine which will receive crowned nuts in promiscuous masses and automatr cally stack them in the magazine of a machine, with their backs all facing the tool or tools that are to perform the subsequent operations. i y

This object is attained by arranging a tray that has the upper face of its bottom serrated on an incline and reciprocating this tray by suitable mechanism in such manner that those nuts which fallback down on the bottom of the tray will be caught by the edges of the serrations and kicked forward until they pass over the top end and slide down a trough and into the chutes of the magazine, while those nuts which fall crown face on the bottom of the-tray will slide down the incline, not being caught by the edges of the serrations, until they reach the lower end where they are engaged by an oscillating wing which is actuated bythe reciprocations of the tray so as to flip the nuts back ontothe serrated bottom, which action generally turns the nuts over so that they will be engaged by the serrations and then advanced up the incline to the trough which directs them into the magazine chutes.

In the drawings adouble machine is illustrated, that is, a machine which has two re ciprocating trays and flapping wings arranged to deliver the nuts all faced in the same direction into four magazine chutes. Fig. 1 shows a plan of the machine which may be mountedon a table or bench, or can be attached directly to the machine that is to perform the subsequent operations on the nuts. machine. Fig. 8 is a longitudinal section taken through one of the reciprocatory trays to show its serrated bottom andflapping wing. Fig. t shows an elevation of the de livery end of the machine. Fig. 5 shows an elevation of the magazinetroughs into which the properly faced'nuts aredelivered.

Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of the The bed 1 may be supported in any suitable manner. Mounted upon the bed are brackets 2 with inclined upper faces. These brackets are fastened to thetop ofthe bed and are braced by bridging pieces 3. A plate 4 is fastened to the tops of the brackets. In the machine illustrated there are two similar trough shaped trays 5 that are slidable longitudinally on the inclined plate 4 between guide bars 6. Fastened to the inside of the bottom of these trays are plates 7 that are serrated to provide teeth which face upwardly. These plates are placed in the trays so that the serrations will be staggered, as shown in Fig. 1. y

Extending across the upper end of each tray is a rod Swhich is connected by a link 9 with a crank 10 on .a shaft 11 that is sup ported by bearings in brackets 12 which are fastened on the top of the bed. The shaft between its bearings is provided with a driving pulley 13. As this pulley is rotated cranks and links cause a rapid reciprocation of the trays up and down the incline ways in which they are held. y

Extending across each tray near its lower end is a wing 14 that is pivotally supported by the sides of the tray. On the outside of each tray and movable therewith is a bracket 15 carrying a roll 16 which lies in the link17 of a rocker arm 18 attached to a shaft 19 that is supported by a bracket 20 fastened to the bed. This shaft at the center of the tray has an upwardly extending linger 21 whichcarries a roll 22 that is designed to engage the back of the wing that extends across the lower end of the tray. As a tray moves down the incline the roll-engaging the link in the rocker arm throws the finger up ward against the wing, which moves down with the tray, and causes the wing to be quickly oscillated toward the upper end of the tray. hen the tray moves upward the finger is oscillated away from the back of the upwardly moving wing, and allows the wing to swing down.

The nuts are dumped in a promiscuous mass upon the inclined serrated plates in the trays. Those nuts which fall witlrtheirine ner faces down are engaged by the teeth of the serrations, while those nuts which land thrown up onto the serrated plates.

with the crown faces down on the plates are not engaged by the teeth of the serrations as illustrated in Fig. 3. As the cranks revolve and the trays are reciprocated those nuts which are engaged by the teeth are intermitshould they .not so land they return to the wings and are-again thrown up until they do land with the crowns-up, and then are advanced to the upper ends of the trays.

' Fastened to the'brackets 2, and extending across the upper ends of the trays is a downwardly sloping plate 23 upon which are guide bars'Q i that provide tapering troughs 25 down which the properly faced nuts slide when they are kicked off from the trays. Leading from these inclined troughs are vertical channels 26 formed by plates 27 and gulde bars 28. "In each of these channels 1s a vertically movable peace with a wedge shaped upper end. These plates are joined by a bar 30 that is connected by rods 33 with eccentrics 31 on thedriving shaft. Extending down from the lower end'of each of these vertical channels are two chutes 32, each of which has a cross sectional area of a size to receive a nut. j As the .nuts slide down the troughs into the vertical channels, the reciprocations of the pointed plates agitate them so that some fall into one chute and others I fall'into the other chute, and thus the nuts become stacked, in the'niiachine illustrated, in four magazine chutes, all facing in the same direction.

It requires but a little power to operate one of these machines and they run continuously and quickly deliver nuts properly faced as long as nuts are supplied to the reciprocatingtrays; The machine could be built with a single reciprocating tray but it is preferred to make it a twin machine, that is, with two trays as illustrated, each of which is designed to deliver nuts properly related to two magazine chutes.

i The invention claimed is:

' liA machine for magazining nuts which comprises a tray movably supported on an inclined path and having the upper surface of its bottom provided with serrations the teeth of whichface upward and alternately incline in'reverse directions, mechanisms for reciprocating the tray longitudinally up and down saidinclined path, and a channel extending from the upperend of the tray for receiving the nuts which are advanced by the tray andithrown over the upper end thereof.

2. A machine for magazining nuts which comprises a tray movably supported on an inclined path and carrying longitudinally extending plat-es provided with transverse serrations the teeth of which face upward, said plates being arranged so that the serrations incline in reverse directions, mechanism for reciprocating the tray longitudinally up and down said inclined path, and a channel extending from the upper end of the tray for receiving the nuts which are advanced up the tray and over the upper end thereof.

' 3. A machine for magazining nuts which comprises a tray movably supported on an incline and having the upper surface of its bottom provided with serrations the teeth of which face upward, mechanism for reciprocating the tray, an oscillatory wing extending across the lower end of the tray, mechanism for oscillating said wing, and a channel extending from the upper end of the tray for receiving the nuts which are advanced up the tray and over the upper end thereof.

4. A machine for magazining nuts which comprisesa tray movably supported on an incline and having the upper surface of its bottom provided with serrations the teeth of WlllCll face upward, mechanism for reciprocating the tray, an oscillatory wing extending across the lower end of the tray, mechanism actuated by the reciprocations of the tray for oscillating said wing, and a channel extending from the upper end of the tray for receiving the nuts which are advanced up the tray and over the upper end thereof.

5. machine for magazining nuts which comprises a tray movably supported on an incline and having the upper surf ace of its bottom provided with serrations the teeth of which face upward, mechanism for reciprocating the tray, an oscillatory wing extcn ding across the lower end of the tray, a finger for throwing the wing upwardly, mechanism for oscillating said finger, and a channel extending from the upper end of the tray for receiving the nuts which are advanced up the tray and over the upper end thereof.

6. A machine for magazining nuts which comprises a tray movably supported on an incline and having the upper surface of its bottom provided with serrations the teeth of which face upward, mechanism for reciprocating the tray, a channel extending from the upper end of the tray for receiving the nuts which are advanced up the tray and over the upper end thereof, an agitator movable in said channel, and mechanism for reciprocating said agitator.

7. A machine for magazining nuts which comprises a. tray movably supported on an incline and having the upper surface of its bottom provided with serrations the teeth of which face upward, mechanism for reciprocating the tray, a channel extending from the upper end of the tray for receiving the nuts which are advanced up the tray and over the upper end thereof, a plurality of chutes ex- Ill) tending from said channel and means movits bottom shaped to advance nuts upward as able in the channel for directing nuts thereit is reciprocated, means at the lower end of from into the chutes. said tray for throwing upward on to the tray 10 8. A machine for magazining nuts which such nuts as are not advanced thereby, and 5 comprises a tray movably supported on an means for actuating said nut throwing means.

incline, mechanism for reciprocating the tray, said tray having the upper surface of JOSEPH V. GIBNEY. 

